Kathleen Forsythe was born in Fredericton in 1949. She is a writer, poet, artist, and educator. She has published five collections of poetry with Fiddlehead Poetry Books: Inside Me (1969), The Hair Cage (1972), November-Dead-Time (1974), Time and Untime (1977), and Pheonix Rising (1979). She lives in Vancouver, BC, where she works as the Executive Director of the SelfDesign Learning Foundation. She is the winner of the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence and the Province of British Columbia Recognition for Teaching Excellence Award.